DRE, Airbags & Safety Restraints

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

This role is open to Remote within the United States. Travel to Irvine, CA may be required occasionally.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional integration efforts to meet crash safety metrics, ensuring alignment of technical objectives and timing across all functional groups.

• Create development vehicle crash development plans from scratch, including defining the process and resources needed to execute test plans early in a program.

• Support the design and release of Steering Wheel, Airbags, Seatbelts. Experience with developing components in-house like brackets, emblems, bezels, switches is a plus.

• Create and execute DVP&R process with restraints components.

• Support the design and release of the restraints control system, including packaging of sensors and ECU, requirements gathering for software and calibration, and integration management of all effected cross-functional teams.

• Develop integration requirements to align safety attributes to design.

• Manage all safety integration activities, clearly identifying risks and efficiently resolving issues cascaded from program management, vehicle engineering, packaging, or other DRE teams.

• Coordinate all activities related to execution of system level safety tests, including part procurement, lab onboarding and preparation, and onsite support at lab for tests. Types of test include: FMVSS 200-series, dynamic sled,

• Experience with BiW design optimization or countermeasures to meet crash requirements.

• Support implementation of crash safety development processes within the program development system.

• Develop pre and post-test templates for vehicle crash test and execution to document critical and useful information during test setups.

• Familiarity with sourcing processes required to onboard suppliers and test labs to execute safety testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.

• 10+ years of experience in automotive safety, vehicle testing, or safety integration.

• Design development and production launch experience of any or all restraints components at OEM or Tier 1 supplier.

• Development of a crash control system with heavy integration with electrical, software, and systems teams. Packaging of sensor and ECU components is a plus.

• Experience conducting full vehicle crash tests onsite at test labs.

• Strong working knowledge of FMVSS, ECE, NCAP, and other automotive safety protocols.

• Proficiency in CAD design, CATIA V6 preferred.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with other engineering teams.

• Ability to excel in a startup environment.

• Ability to articulate engineering status or results to executive leadership.

• Excellent communication and organizational skills.

• CAE/Simulation experience a plus

Salary:

• $90,000-95,000

• The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience

ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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